George Read

George Read (18 September 1733-21 September 1798) was Governor of Delaware from 20 October 1777 to 31 March 1778, succeeding Thomas McKean and preceding Caesar Rodney, and a US Senator from 4 March 1789 to 18 September 1793, preceding Henry Latimer.

Biography
George Read was born in Cecil County, Maryland in 1733, the son of a wealthy Anglo-Irish immigrant. The family moved to Delaware when Read was an infant, and he became a lawyer in 1753. In 1763, he became Crown Attorney General of Delaware, and he served in that position until joining the Continental Congress in 1774. Read was in favor of compromising with Great Britain, and he voted against the US Declaration of Independence; Caesar Rodney had to be brought in to break the deadlock and assist in voting in favor of the declaration. From 1777 to 1778, he served as Governor of Delaware, and he represented Delaware at the Constitutionla Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Two years later, he became one of Delaware's two inaugural senators, and he resigned in 1793 to serve as Chief Justice of Delaware from 1793 until his death in 1798.